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1st Semester Final
Includes literary analysis skills, narrative style, synthesis, point of view, characterization, irony, plot, theme, life of pi
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English
9th Grade
12/18/2012

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Theme
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An idea or observation about human nature or life - it runs through the work and is expressed in many ways.
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Plot order
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- Exposition
- Inclining incident
- Plot complications
- Rising action
- Climax
- Falling action
- Resolution
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A complex sentence consists of...
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...1 independent clause and 1 dependent clause.
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Flat character
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Has few traits, can be describes in a sentence or two, easily describes
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Round character
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Have complexity, many traits, needs at least a paragraph to describe, has depth, not easily described
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Direct characterization
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Telling; the narrator directly tells us about the character
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Indirect characterization
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Showing
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The theme is only a moral in the case of a...
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...parable/fable.
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Acronym for characterization
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S - peech
T - houghts
E - ffect on others/how others act towards them
A - ctions
L - ooks/physical appearance
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1st person
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I; the narrator is a character in the story
- Main character
- Minor character
- Unreliable narrator
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2nd person
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You; narrator is not a character in the story
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3rd person
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He, she, it; narrator is not in the story
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Omniscient
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All seeing
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Limited
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Sees the characters' thoughts
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Objective
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Sees no one's thoughts
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Irony
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Discrepancy between what is expected and what is
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Verbal irony
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What is said is the opposite of what is meant (i.e. sarcasm)
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Situational irony
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The outcome is the opposite of what is expected
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Dramatic irony
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Audience knows more than the characters know
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Juxtaposition
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Sudden change
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